[DRE-maint] Backporting gem2deb

[Antonio Terceiro]

Hi Theo,

Theo Cushion escreveu isso aí:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm in the process of back porting Ruby 1.9.3 from Precise to Lucid.
> My aim is to get Passenger running using Ruby 1.9.3 on Lucid with
> nginx. However, I've run into trouble porting some of the gems back
> like ruby-rack. This is because these gems require gem2deb in order to
> build them. 
> 
> When I attempt to build gem2deb on Lucid however I get unmet build
> dependencies, such as ruby-setup. However some of these packages rely
> on gem2deb!
> 
> Could anyone point me in the right direction for trying to solve these
> circular build dependencies?

Those packages are Arch: all. You can just grab the newer ones and
install them on the older system to bootstrap gem2deb.

Regarding Passenger, AFAICT even the newest version on unstable does not
support nginx yet. It would be really nice if you could do the work in
Debian first, so that everyone wins. ;-)

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org>
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